Propositions for the Pan-African Project in the 21st century
The Pan-African project is the goal. The Pan-African project is the objective designed by the Founding Fathers. The Pan-African project is a target. The Pan-African project sure enough is the horizon to reach for the long lasting security and welfare of the global African nation. The Pan-African project is the ultimate federating tool we have got. The Pan-African project is our future. Let us then push the Pan-African project to its fulfillment in this here 21st century. The big deal here really is the defense of the already vulnerable global African nation as well as its influence in the world. Here are nine propositions I make for the African States along with the Africans of the world to walk their walk up towards the achievement of Africa in this 21st century:
1/ I propose that henceforth during meetings, summits, assemblies, of the African Union (AU) official representative of the States or Departments from the African Diaspora (Haiti, Brazil, Cuba, Martinique, United States of America, Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, Guyana, United Kingdom, Guadeloupe, Honduras, Venezuela, Trinidad, Portugal, Barbados, Dominican Republic, etc.) be systematically invited.
2/ I propose that summits reuniting Africans from the continent with the fellow Africans from the post-slavery Diaspora be regularly held on the African land. I think the African/African American Summits that were hosted by Abidjan, Libreville, Dakar, Harare, Accra, Abuja, and can serve as models for such meetings. The purpose of those reunions is to orchestrate the meeting-again of all Africans in the world. The restoration of the great African family: that is the big challenge. The distance that keeps us apart must be overcome. Bridges must be built up. Special partnerships on the basis of our common family ties must be established too. Cultural, economical, scientific exchanges have got to be made. In any case, a formal afro lateral cooperation must be got started. That is a priority. However, beyond any other consideration, those special occasions are the meeting-again of brothers and sisters of the same family who come together for the end of the sorrow, the healing of the ole wound; they come together for peace to find its way back to their hearts at last; they come together for a new start together. That is the ultimate function of such summits. Here is what is essential. The rest comes after, in second place. A real Pan-African dynamic will then be possible from this effective as well as affective meeting-again. The children of Africa must first of all come together because they are not complete, they are not whole when separated from each other.
3/ I propose that the flags of the African nations of the Diaspora be associated with the flags of the African States during every African summit. Since a majority of African communities live in states that are not ruled by them and where they form but a minority, I propose that the emblematic flags those communities have chosen to represent themselves be considered official flags and so be associated with the other African flags. Those symbols would seal the actual presence in Africa of all the children stolen from Africa.
4/ I propose that in the future be included in the academic courses all major intellectual productions by Africans stolen from the motherland that praise race pride, Pan-Africanism or Afrocentricity. Those productions can range from culture to economy, history, science, arts.
5/ I propose that in every African capital be raised one unique monument symbolizing the return to the motherland.
6/ I propose that African nationalities be systematically granted to the children stolen from Africa who formally express the will for any African country citizenship.
7/ I propose that in the future be celebrated in the continent historical dates of the Diaspora Africans' struggle for freedom as well as deported African heroes.
8/ I propose that from now on be adopted a flag symbolizing the retrieved unity of all the children of Africa, those in the motherland and those taken away from the motherland.
9/ I propose that in the future be written in the constitution of the African States that every head of state during his or her mandate must make at least one official visit in a land where Africans have been deported: the Caribbean, South-America, Central America, North-America, Europe. It is time we go beyond theory and make concrete actions.
